After the grungy climb of Spider Mountain, Jim and I were happy to be teaming up with George to do some alpine crag climbing at Washington Pass. Alpine crag climbing has the appeal of being in the mountains but you get to climb fairly solid rock. Unlike Spider where everything you touched came off in…
Jim and I had hoped to get one more long trip in before the end of September but the weather did not cooperate. With a 3 day weather window, we scrambled to come up with something. We had hope to do Spider Mountain back in July so we had good snow cover and long days…
Jim and I were looking for a fun trip with Kevin and Lisa. Plan A was the Olympic Mountains but when the weather went bad, we headed east. Though the forecast was for smoke, we only had it on our hike in and it never got that bad. We had views the entire hike in.…
Jim, Fay, and I started planning this trip over a year ago when we stood 40 feet below the summit of Bear Mountain and had to turn back. It was not climbable from where we were. At least not by us with the gear we had. Last year, we attempted Bear via the East ridge…
Earlier this summer, Erika and I compared schedules to come up with one possible weekend to go climbing this summer. It also turned out to be the only rainy weekend in the last couple of months. Jim did his best to come up with something that we might be able to climb. But in the…
After the success of my last climb, we decided to not hold back and see if I could do a normal climbing trip. We had not anticipated just how difficult the climb of Baby Munday would be. To be blunt, this trip kick my ass but I completed it which was quite an accomplishment and…
With the success of our Rampart Lakes trip, Jim and I decided to step it up and see what my knees could do. Jim came up with a 3 day climb of Cowlitz Chimneys. It had a reasonable approach using the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park. Believe it or not, I had never…
After being cleared to start hiking again, Jim decided Rampart Lakes was the perfect destination. The hike in was all on trail, less than 3000 feet of elevation, less than 6 miles. It also offered beautiful lakes and a summit which had a trail to the top, Alta Mountain. We headed out on Monday for…
As the book-sized rock shatter over my knees, I was overcome with pain like nothing I had ever experience (and I went through natural child birth). Intellectually, I knew my body would produce enough adrenaline to absorb some of the pain but what was taking so long. While I waited, I screamed in agony. As…
The Mox Peaks, known in Beckey as the Twin Spires (NW and SE), are located in the American Chilliwack Mountains in the North Cascades near the Canadian Boarder. When Fay climbed both peaks in 2006, she referred to them as “Hard” and “Harder” Mox instead of “Easy Mox” and “Hard Mox”. I could not agree…
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